Billboard Music Award for Top Rock Song

The Billboard Music Award for Top Rock Song winners and nominees. Collective Soul and Panic! At the Disco are the only groups/artists to win twice.

Winners and nominees

Year	Song	Artist	Nominees	Ref.
1992	"Mysterious Ways"^[1] (Album Rock) "One" (Modern Rock)	U2
1993	"Plush"^[2]	Stone Temple Pilots	Lenny Kravitz – "Are You Gonna Go My Way"^[2] Aerosmith – "Livin' on the Edge" Aerosmith – "Cryin'"
1994	"Shine"^[3]	Collective Soul	Soundgarden – "Black Hole Sun"^[3] Candlebox – "Far Behind" Alice in Chains – "No Excuses"
1995	"December"^[4]	Collective Soul	Live – "Lightning Crashes"^[4] Pearl Jam – "Better Man" Green Day – "When I Come Around"
1996	"Counting Blue Cars"^[5]	Dishwalla
1997	"If You Could Only See"^[6]	Tonic	The Offspring – "Gone Away"^[6] The Wallflowers – "One Headlight" Matchbox Twenty – "Push"
1998	"Blue on Black"^[7]	Kenny Wayne Shepherd	Creed – "My Own Prison"^[7] Days of the New – "The Down Town" Days of the New – "Touch, Peel and Stand"
1999	"One"^[8]	Creed	Collective Soul – "Heavy"^[8] Red Hot Chili Peppers – "Scar Tissue" Everlast – "What It's Like"
2000	"Kryptonite"^[9]	3 Doors Down	Metallica – "I Disappear"^[9] Creed – "Higher" Metallica – "No Leaf Clover"
2002	"Blurry"^[10]	Puddle of Mudd	Godsmack – "I Stand Alone"^[10] Default – "Wasting My Time" Staind – "For You"
2003	"Headstrong"^[11]	Trapt	The White Stripes – "Seven Nation Army"^[11] Audioslave – "Like a Stone" Chevelle – "Send the Pain Below"
2005	"Boulevard of Broken Dreams"^[12]	Green Day	Foo Fighters – "Best of You"^[12] Gorillaz – "Feel Good Inc." Nine Inch Nails – "The Hand That Feeds"
2006	"Animal I Have Become"^[13]	Three Days Grace	Red Hot Chili Peppers – "Dani California"^[13] Godsmack – "Speak"
2011	"Hey, Soul Sister"^[14]	Train	Florence and the Machine – "Dog Days Are Over"^[14] Mumford & Sons – "Little Lion Man" Neon Trees – "Animal" The Dirty Heads feat. Rome Ramirez – "Lay Me Down"
2012	"Pumped Up Kicks"^[15]	Foster the People	Coldplay – "Paradise"^[15] Foo Fighters – "Walk" Adele – "Rolling in the Deep" Adele – "Someone like You"
2013	"Somebody That I Used to Know"^[16]	Gotye feat. Kimbra	Fun – "Some Nights"^[16] Fun feat. Janelle Monáe – "We Are Young" The Lumineers – "Ho Hey" Phillip Phillips – "Home"
2014	"Royals"^[17]	Lorde	Capital Cities – "Safe and Sound"^[17] Imagine Dragons – "Demons" Imagine Dragons – "Radioactive" Passenger – "Let Her Go"
2015	"Take Me to Church"^[18]	Hozier	Bastille – "Pompeii"^[18] Coldplay – "A Sky Full of Stars" Fall Out Boy – "Centuries" Paramore – "Ain't It Fun"
2016	"Shut Up and Dance"	Walk the Moon	Fall Out Boy – "Uma Thurman" Elle King – "Ex's & Oh's" twenty one pilots – "Stressed Out" X Ambassadors – "Renegades"
2017	"Heathens"	Twenty One Pilots	"Ride" – Twenty One Pilots "Stressed Out" – Twenty One Pilots "Sucker for Pain" – Lil Wayne, Wiz Khalifa and Imagine Dragons with Logic and Ty Dolla Sign featuring X Ambassadors "Unsteady" – X Ambassadors
2018	"Believer"	Imagine Dragons	"Feel It Still" – Portugal. The Man "Heavy" – Linkin Park featuring Kiiara "Thunder" – Imagine Dragons "Wish I Knew You" – The Revivalists
2019	"High Hopes"	Panic! at the Disco	"Sit Next to Me" – Foster the People "Natural" – Imagine Dragons "Whatever It Takes" – Imagine Dragons "Broken" – Lovelytheband
2020	"Hey Look Ma, I Made It"	Panic! at the Disco	"Bad Liar" - Imagine Dragons "I Think I'm Okay" - Machine Gun Kelly x Yungblud x Travis Barker "Chlorine" - Twenty One Pilots "The Hype" - Twenty One Pilots
2021	"Bang!"^[19]	AJR	"Monsters" - All Time Low ft. Blackbear "Heat Waves" - Glass Animals "My Ex's Best Friend" - Machine Gun Kelly ft. Blackbear "Level of Concern" - Twenty One Pilots	^[20]
2022	"Beggin'"	Måneskin	"My Universe" – Coldplay and BTS "Drunk (And I Don't Wanna Go Home)" – Elle King and Miranda Lambert "Follow You" – Imagine Dragons "Meet Me at Our Spot" – The Anxiety (Willow Smith and Tyler Cole)	^[21]

Superlatives

The following individuals received two or more Top Rock Song Awards: Wins Artist 2 Collective Soul Panic! At the Disco

The following individuals received two or more Top Rock Song nominations: Nominations Artist 7 Imagine Dragons 6 Twenty One Pilots 3 Collective Soul Creed Coldplay 2 Adele Aerosmith Days of the New Fall Out Boy Godsmack Green Day Foo Fighters Foster the People Fun Metallica Red Hot Chili Peppers

References

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17. "2014 Billboard Music Awards". Awardsandwinners. Retrieved October 26, 2016.
18. "2015 Billboard Music Awards". Variety. May 17, 2015. Retrieved October 26, 2016.
19. "AJR Perform 'Bang!' & 'Way Less Sad' at 2021 Billboard Music Awards". Billboard. Retrieved 2021-05-24.
20. "The Weeknd Leads All Finalists for the 2021 Billboard Music Awards: See the Full List". Billboard. Retrieved 2021-05-24.
21. Grein, Paul (April 8, 2022). "The Weeknd & Doja Cat Lead 2022 Billboard Music Awards Finalists: Full List". Billboard. from the original on April 8, 2022. Retrieved April 8, 2022.